To the editor:
Legalized gambling, now in Massachusetts, has ruined sports — especially professional sports as seen on television both locally and nationally.
I don’t trust what is going on. We see television advertisements for betting while games are being played. You name it: hockey, baseball, basketball, and even golf.
It will probably be worse during football season. Fans can and will bet on anything that may occur during a game on their internet devices and use their financial apps to get money from their banking accounts simultaneously.
It leads to compulsive gambling and chaos in the families when abused. One has to question the outcome of events in sports now more than ever. We legislatively will not be able to make public gambling on television illegal now, but we should start thinking about it for the future and discussing it before individuals and families are torn apart.
We do not want sports to be tainted by the flow of illicit funding.
Sincerely,
Philip Celeste
Danvers resident
